146 THE CHALLENGE OF THE N.W. FRONTIER
unity and world peace. For, as I have already
pointed out, Islam in India has become tolerant in
character. It has also faced the intellectual problems
of the modern age without losing its religious
dynamic. The summons to abandon religion alto-
gether, which has invaded these countries of Middle
Asia from the North, has not destroyed among the
young the spirit of Islam, though the danger still
threatens. Thus the new generation in India has a
double function to perform. It has to meet the moral
challenge which Hinduism makes with its doctrine
of Ahimsa, and it also has to carry forward the
living spirit of Islam into those places where a
purely secular view of life is gathering power.